I wonder if there is a way of making the email get exposed as an atom or rss feed, which you could then use a reader automation to poll.<br><br>Skylos<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Andrew Sweger <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:andrew@sweger.net">andrew@sweger.net</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">As far as getting the mail to the server, I&#39;m a fan of using the fetchmail<br>
utility that takes care of periodically checking the email account for new<br>
messages, retrieving them, and then feeding them to whatever program you<br>
write that then parses the message for content.<br>
<br>
I thought email was dead in this age of twitterdom.<br>
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On Tue, 2 Mar 2010, Phil Mitchell wrote:<br>
<br>
&gt; For my perl/catalyst web app, Bikewise.org, we want to automate the process<br>
&gt; of receiving updates from users via email. IOW, user sends email to<br>
&gt; <a href="mailto:update@bikewise.org">update@bikewise.org</a> and we parse the contents and update the database<br>
&gt; accordingly.<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; As I sat down to think this through, I realized I have no idea how this is<br>
&gt; done. The app is hosted on a virtual server, and relies on a separate mail<br>
&gt; server that&#39;s run by my hosting provider. Do I need access to the raw mail<br>
&gt; files on the server? Is there a standard way to set this up?<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt;<br>
<br>
--<br>
</div></div>Andrew B. Sweger -- The great thing about multitasking is that several<br>
things can go wrong at once.<br>
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